nLab
well-connected space

A well-connectedtopological space is one that satisfies sufficiently strong local connectivity assumptions. These are usually defined in terms of a basis of open sets or a basis of neighbourhoods of the space. Note that this term is not universally defined, but is a placeholder for possibly more complicated adjectives that depend on the situation at hand.

Examples

A locally path-connected space has the nice property that path-components are the same as components. It is also true in this case that XI→X×XX^I \to X\times X is an open map.